Botched overseas cosmetic surgery cases on the rise

The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons says cases of corrective surgery had risen by 38 per cent during the past year.

A majority of its members surveyed say they are seeing more incidents of bad tourism surgery, with breast resizing representing 68 per cent of all revision procedures, followed by facial surgery (15 per cent) and tummy tucks (eight per cent).

Some 62 per cent of surgeons said they had seen cases of permanent disfiguring which they could not correct.

A similar number said patients had been psychologically affected while 72 per cent of surgeons said they had seen tourism surgery cases they were unable to completely correct.

Almost half said patients' lives would have been at risk if they hadn't intervened.